On a whim a read this BBC article on "When Pop Stars Get Political" and had to laugh at this paragraph:
George Michael's anti-Iraq war song Shoot the Dog , which accused Tony Blair of being George Bush's poodle, so angered Americans that the former Wham star moved out of the US for a time.
George Michael? Angered Americans? Who's George Michael? Oh yeah, he's the has been who got picked up in LA for soliciting an undercover cop for some anonymous male bonding. Nobody cares about George but George anymore.
The BBC article should have read: "...the Wham _former_ star...".
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